2 minute readSam writes: The ICC Twenty20 Bonanza (or whatever it was called) caught the imagination of the entire world, but more importantly of my girlfriend who suddenly expressed an interest in attending a live match. So off we went to Lord’s on a humid Sunday afternoon for her first proper cricket
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Otherwise known as Alex Bowden, a lapsed cricket journalist who has written for ESPNCricinfo, wisden.com, Cricket 365, The Cricketer and plenty of other places.
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One Twenty20 competition in county cricket next season
< 1 minute readThe England and Wales Cricket Board have done the right thing. We can stop posting excrement to them now. We’re not going to. But theoretically, we could stop. We could stop phoning them up and screaming ‘TURMOIL’ in a demon voice when someone answers as well, but this is very
Continue readingIan Bell for England – good or bad?
< 1 minute readKnowing our depth of feeling about Ian Bell, you must be desperate to read how we’re going to cover the news that he’s likely to replace Kevin Pietersen for the rest of the Ashes. It’s heated debate like what follows that makes the cricket world tick. Angry that Ian Bell’s
Continue readingInternational Cricket Captain 2009 review
3 minute readHow’s it work then? You captain/coach either a county side, an international side or both. You train your players, select your team, make your bowling changes, tell them where to bowl, position your field, gauge how much to attack with the bat, decide when to take the new ball –
Continue readingThe website is moving in a bold new direction
< 1 minute readYou’ve all no doubt noticed that the quality of our writing’s been pretty mediocre over the last few weeks. Maybe it’s the pressure of covering the Ashes. Who knows? Whatever it is, we’ve decided it’s a time for decisive action. KingCricket.co.uk needs a kick up the arse and how do
Continue readingInternational Cricket Captain 2009 free download
< 1 minute readYou can download the latest version of International Cricket Captain for free here. It’s a two day trial version, but you can get a code after that and play the full version. Or you can buy it from Amazon for just £9.50. Initial impressions are that changes are minimal, but
Continue readingHow to write an Ashes blog | part three
< 1 minute readWelcome to part three of our informative series of posts about how to run a cricket blog during the Ashes. For our third lesson, we’d like to stress to you just how important it is to use the right equipment. You should type on a keyboard, have your words appear
Continue readingAndrew Flintoff – do England need him?
< 1 minute readWe wrote a post about whether England needed Andrew Flintoff, but we’ve deleted it. The gist was: Bifidus digestivum: do we need it? Companies with ‘solutions’ in their name: do we need them? Andrew Flintoff: do we need him? After watching him clatter helmets, wedge in yorkers and shatter stumps
Continue readingThe Andrew Strauss catch of Phil Hughes
< 1 minute readPhil Hughes edged a Flintoff delivery to the slips. Andrew Strauss scooped it up, but did it graze the turf? The umpires didn’t refer it, but if they had have done, Hughes would certainly have been given not out. The heart bleeds. The Australian view is that Hughes would definitely
Continue readingWatching Ricky Ponting flip out
< 1 minute readRicky Ponting always reminds us of the spoilt youngest daughter in a story about an upper class family set in the Fifties. She’s short, ridiculously spoilt and on the rare occasions she doesn’t get her way, she shrieks and shrieks and her facial expression becomes unavoidably punchable. One of the
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